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Scott Adams comes up with a brilliant analysis of yesterday's health care news and how it's bigger than just a singular defeat. Well worth a read to give you a bigger picture view.
1 posted on 03/25/2017 9:59:38 AM PDT by angelrod
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To: angelrod

Trump is no longer Hitler in the minds of liberals and the fake news media.

Ironically enough, the death of RINOCare made Trump look human.


2 posted on 03/25/2017 10:03:17 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: angelrod

Ryan lost. Bigly.


3 posted on 03/25/2017 10:10:22 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: angelrod

If Obamacare is still standing next election cycle, pity the congressman who is associated with the Freedom Caucus.


4 posted on 03/25/2017 10:10:44 AM PDT by MagillaX
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To: angelrod

Pelosi is already calling the Pres a ‘rookie’ president. This theme will probably also prevail. IMO


7 posted on 03/25/2017 10:12:37 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: angelrod

As someone who was not an early Trump supporter but saw enough of him up close over the years to understand how he operates, I can guarantee tha he had no interest in seeing Ryan’s bill passed despite all of his public posturing.


9 posted on 03/25/2017 10:17:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: angelrod

I see Scott’s point. Impressed at DJTs reaction to this defeat. It shows that he is not of childish temperament, nor ready to seek revenge on those deserving. A smaller person would be out ‘preaching’, lecturing the public as well as congress telling all of the doom and gloom which would befall them due to this failure.

Dare it be said that DJT is actually listening to God’s Will and plans for AMERICA?

Two tumbs up if he succeeds in stifling the cries of Hitlerism, dictatorship, Socialism. Those who cry ‘incompetent’ will be doomed to eat their words.


12 posted on 03/25/2017 10:21:30 AM PDT by V K Lee (If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?)
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To: angelrod

The Walrus is Paul (Rino).

—Obscure Beatles reference


14 posted on 03/25/2017 10:22:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: angelrod

We will see how much that perception matters.
I’m of the belief that the Dems would be saying the exact same things about any republican president, no matter what his last name was. They have become like spoiled children, used to getting their way if not through crooked voting, then through compliant judges. We will see. I am not celebrating anything just yet.


17 posted on 03/25/2017 10:27:13 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: angelrod

Scott only missed one additional point. Ryan has been and is still Necer Trump. His failure of leadership and failure to understand the American People now requires him to step down.


21 posted on 03/25/2017 10:33:46 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: angelrod

No, Adams missed the boat here on what Trump really accomplished. His hands are now completely clean. When Obamacare fails, he can say ‘I tried to fix it, but the democrats and the republicans in the house wouldn’t let me. Blame Ryan and the democrats.

But he managed to avoid blame for the Obamacare failure while not being saddled with responsibility for a plan that was going to be subject to potshotting from both the left and the right.

Brilliant moves on Trump’s part, and Ryan and the Dems fell right into the trap.


31 posted on 03/25/2017 10:49:12 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: angelrod

Trump has other ways to sink 0-care w/o Ryno.

Here’s his first EO:

Sec. 2. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) and the heads of all other executive departments and agencies (agencies) with authorities and responsibilities under the Act shall exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications. For more information:
www.whitehouse.gov.

Second, if you want to get rid of a bad law enforce it. Certainly lift the exemptions for 0-care with respect to congress and government employees (except military)

Make sure that IRS is not enforcing the individual penalty for non government citizens. Have a team review IRS data and claims. If someone is assessed by IRS agent to pay penalty, stop them. Also, set up mechanism whereby individuals can claim a hardship and allow all hardship claims to be honored and penalty claims to be dropped. Do this a few times and IRS agents won’t bother.

Trump should go to the governors and ask States to come up with their own ideas and grant any exemption and waiver especially if it weakens 0-care.

I do believe that 0-care will collapse if the mandates are not enforced. BTW, do you think that citizens would object if 0-care is selectively enforced on government employees and not citizens? Especially since Congress that has had the exemption for 7 years?

Ryno lost it was his bill and he’s basically in the enemy camp. He dug his hole deeper by saying that 0-care will stay thus demonstrating his weakness and incompetence. Great admissions that prove the need for a new Speaker.


42 posted on 03/25/2017 10:59:16 AM PDT by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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To: angelrod

Freedom. Aucus was correct with non-support.
GOPe was exposed as the frauds that they are.
Democrats forced to wear the albatross that is Obamacare.
Obamacare will self-destruct allowing for a workable replacement.


48 posted on 03/25/2017 11:07:23 AM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: angelrod

Trump also won by controlling the agenda. He choose Obamacare as the first big issue to tackle and now he can say “Well, I lost, so it must not have been that important” and move on. This may make him look incompetent as Adams says, but it’s a Get Out Of Jail Free card with regard to Obamacare. If he’s right that it is going to continue failing and causing pain on people, even those who hate Trump will remember one thing: he tried to fix it but the Republicans in the House wouldn’t let him.

So now who doesn’t understand that the House Republicans were the biggest losers yesterday?


58 posted on 03/25/2017 11:26:06 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: angelrod

But now we all need to get ready for the collapse of Obamacare. Everyday Trump needs to go on and say that the health of all Americans is at risk because of Obamacare.


66 posted on 03/25/2017 12:01:17 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: angelrod

Scott Adams is absolutely right. And in the process, Trump is taking out some of the biggest Rinos and further damaging the Rats.


70 posted on 03/25/2017 12:28:45 PM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: angelrod

The illusion of Trump-is-Hitler has been fully replaced with Trump-is-incompetent meme.


71 posted on 03/25/2017 12:46:39 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The illusion of Trump-is-Hitler has been fully replaced with Trump-is-incompetent meme on 3/24/2017)
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To: angelrod

He’s brilliant.


77 posted on 03/25/2017 1:03:46 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: angelrod

Obamacare is fascist. Trumpcare would have been fascist. Purge government from the marketplace before it becomes the marketplace even more.


83 posted on 03/25/2017 1:44:27 PM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: angelrod

Meh. The left may claim he’s incompetent, but he’s still Hitler too. He’s like Qadafi, or Peron or some other dictator who is also depicted as bumbling. I don’t agree with the theory of this article.


84 posted on 03/25/2017 3:41:21 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

PFL


86 posted on 03/26/2017 12:44:42 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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